Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

Dance is the mathematics of the Soul