the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?