My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, " hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.