There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.