Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me