Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

If you rest, you rust.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].

Never think twice, when you have decided once.

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.