I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Make your best thoughts into action.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.
Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.
One murder makes a villian, millions a hero