Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.