Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

The highest art is artlessness.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man