The more things change, the more they are the same.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.