There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.
An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just run around getting crazy. The problem with writing a memoir, obviously, is you can't do that because you sort of know what's going to happen. Because you're the character.
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.