It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.

Think about your past victories, and then look into the eye of your current obstacle and tell it that it will soon lose like your defeated obstacles.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.