I bear a charmed life.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

God does not play dice.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

He who hath many friends hath none.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Language is wine upon the lips.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.