What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.