The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Style is the essence of man

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

the poet I saw once...but whose words have long beenin my mind, windows of invincible candles...

Let's go together and go to different places and see different things. It'll be fun!- Gon Freaks

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.