Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.