Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.