Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.