Sometimes - history needs a push.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.