We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

All love shifts and changes.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.