My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I want to be somebody when I grow up. Somebody with grown-up dreams and screams for these dreams to be crossover dreams into reality.

I have never felt so alive—so free—so proud. I love my country. I love my America.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.