I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.