If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.