Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .