In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

He had the blue kite in his hands

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.