It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

To live a happy life. Learn to let go of all that stresses you. You were never in control anyway.

Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

We can always take but never give.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.