The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Moonlight is sculpture.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.