If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It takes a long time to grow young.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.