Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!

After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.

They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif