No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.