It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.