no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

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.

We always hate people who surprise our secrets…

Good to evil seems evil a

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

We may divide characters into flat and round.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.