Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Don't be too realistic, It will make you an Idiot .

We are saved by grace.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.