Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

The smell of cars' smokeas I wade through trafficovershadows the freshfragrance of Mother Earthdrenched in rain. There canbe no greater testimony to man's progress

I should say no to prove a point", He said, his eyebrows pulled together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again" - Travis

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.