I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Thought is free.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.