Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Now, where had I heard drinking and brawling before? Oh right, Ashley’s father. Well, I wasn’t doing that again.

The race was on

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.