I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.