I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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