He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
