The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.