But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

If he didn't want his opinion, why did he ask for it?

The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.