creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.