Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.