One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

A garden is never beautiful by accident.

logic is tragic, because it has no magic!

Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I may sound douchey describing myself, but I can live with myself and no one gets yelled at.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.