When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care