Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.