Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home, '" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home, '" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children, '" I said.

There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer.