Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe