Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

If we knew all the answers, there will be no research.

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts