The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.