Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.