In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.