"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"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."

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen."

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

"Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."