All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars — it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.