All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

We are like a snowflake all different in our own beautiful way.

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.