In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.