Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.

Only God can satisfy and set us free.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.