One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.

All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction -- down.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.

Passing by the primate area one day, a zoo attendant happens to notice a chimpanzee sitting on a rock with an open book in either hand, looking first at one and then at the other. Upon closer examination, he identifies the books: the Bible, and Darwin's "Origin of Species". Curious, he asks the chimp, "What's with the books?" The chimp replies, "I'm trying to decide whether I'm my brother's keeper, or my keeper's brother.".

Art is long, but life is fleeting.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,-- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.

Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

Never confuse having a career with having a life.