Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

Action takes precedence over study.

Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

FACING LIFE’S TRIALS, CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES, IS THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH LIFE.

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.