You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue..

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement..

We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear..

If you want truth you should begin by giving it..

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero..

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student..

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs..

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere..

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory..

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet..

What should be shrunken must first be stretched..

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth..

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny..

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it..

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains..

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting..

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him..

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it..

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself..

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice..