God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck.

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.