Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

You can't applaud a referee.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.