Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

The voice of Conscience has needed us to know again who we are in reality.

Respect emotion!!!It is always valid.Don't just HEAR but LISTEN not with your demon

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.