What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

Perfection can be had by everybody.

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.