I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.
It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.