I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

Whenever you receive a vision, quickly act on the vision.

I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug."Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness