Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.