A good river is nature's life work in song.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me.

Knowledge is no burden.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.