It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishlyto those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that tune When I'm back on top, back on top in June

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.

I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.