Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

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.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

We all owe death a life.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Live to the point of tears.

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.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation