One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Life is a weird place, what gonna happen next? No one knows it and nothing is guaranteed.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Hope is a thing with feathers

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.