life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Why doubt thyself? Believe in your abilities.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.