Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.