Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

But I could be wrong.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.