A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.