There isn't any way to libel the human race.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.