Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.
All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago. . . it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall. . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!