There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.