If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
