The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.