One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.