The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.