Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

What goes up must come down.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

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

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Certain signs precede certain events.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.