I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.