I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

The only way the journey ends is if you stop moving.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

You can always become better.