Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
The prices are ridiculous. . . I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
Children are unaccountable little creatures.
I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.