He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
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.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.