I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.