There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.