“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.

When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.

I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The simplest questions are the most profound.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

. . . but there’s a restraining order in place.’ She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘I’m not supposed to be this close to you.’ You were never supposed to be this close to me,’ I say, and I have no idea why.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.