Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Freedom is from within.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.