Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.