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

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.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.

When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.