Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room.We still are what we have always been.We aren’t far away. We are only on the other side of the pathway.

And to all the doctors and people who said there was no hope for children with progeria and they don’t live long I want to say, ‘You’re wrong.

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

Your talent is in your choice.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.