How frail the human heart must be

 — a mirrored pool of thought.

Do not go gentle 

into that good night 

but rage, rage 

against the dying of the light.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, 

and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. 

All wisdom is in our stories and songs. 

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts 

in a conscious, disciplined way 

might help one to do science better.

We carry within us 

the wonders we seek without us.

In all life 

one should comfort the afflicted, 

but verily, also, 

one should afflict the comfortable, 

and especially when 

they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Listen; 

there's a hell of a good universe next door: 

let's go.

One's life has many compartments.

The range of what we think and do 

is limited by what we fail to notice. 

And because we fail to notice 

that we fail to notice, 

there is little we can do to change; 

until we notice 

how failing to notice 

shapes our thoughts and deeds.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. 

Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences 

seen to be paying their way.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation 

that we induce in individuals 

by subjecting them to too much change 

in too short a time.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely 

is made for the eye of one who sees.

Good actions ennoble us, 

and we are the sons of our deeds.