Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

Nothing is black or white.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.