To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

I write what I write.