I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Behind your skin, your bones, your heart and your mind, you are simply a mirror of the universe, all of its history and its future in a single breath.

We are sentenced to die the day we are born.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.