"While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis."

"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday."

"Science is but the statement of truth found out."

"Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty."

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

"She's the original good time that was had by all."

"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy."

"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation."

"EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!"