"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."

"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons."

"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them."

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."

"To master the mind is to understand that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."