What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

The crimson thread of God's love that weaves its way throughout the story of His mercy in our life, stands out against the backdrop of the darkness which invades any valley.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.