Death is the room that is always empty.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Blessed are the peacemakers

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do because it's the right choice. But occasionally we have to put ourselves first.

Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart

If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?