We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

If you can endure anything, you can become anything.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.