Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

In the end, everything is a gag.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.