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.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The way to know life is to love many things.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference