why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Hatred and Blessing cannot coexist in the same heart.

No one conquers fear easily, Robert. It takes a brave heart to win great battles.

Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can't buy, it radiates from within you.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

A flower touches everyone's heart.

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.