Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Over and over, we begin again.

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.