"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."

"It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye; Then it's just fun you can't see."

"All would live long, but none would be old."

"'Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. '"

"Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse."

"What happens when the future has come and gone?"

"Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream."