My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.
Every time you win, you're reborn when you lose, you die a little.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle’.
Every man who repeats the dogma of mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
Let people hate you so long as they fear you.
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
All night long I’ve had the most terrible impulse to do something.