There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.