We live as best we may in a world of worms.

Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.

Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!

I have ridden out all the storms, ” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…

Shakespeare, ” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.