To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

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

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.