"Actresses will happen in the best regulated families."

"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?"

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them"

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much."

"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you."