The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I'd rather be lost than be somewhere I don't belong.

I welcome challenges. I triumph on them, it helps me grow. Without the challenges that I have faced, I may not be where I am at all.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.