Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.

Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.