Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets.

Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Insanity is coasting through life.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.