I wouldn't put on an electric blanket for any reason. First, I'd be worried if I get electrocuted...but I mean, the main thing...is that I think that kind of comfort just separates you form reality in a very direct way.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged.

If you do not have patience, you cannot make beer.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.