The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

Work smart, not hard

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap, or the person people think I am.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.