If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

Humility is attentive patience.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.

Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.