Success causes us to be more praised than known.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.