No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.