My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.