To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
We think too much and feel too little.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.