“Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.”

“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”

“I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.”

“I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

“Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.”

“Everything that has been said, and every conclusion that has been tentatively put forward, is quite frankly speculative and uncertain. We have tried to discuss whether present-day science has anything to say on certain difficult questions, which are perhaps set for ever beyond the reach of human understanding. We cannot claim to have discerned more than a very faint glimmer of light at the best; perhaps it was wholly illusory, for certainly we had to strain our eyes very hard to see anything at all. So that our main contention can hardly be that the science of to-day has a pronouncement to make, perhaps it ought rather to be that science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.”

“Just to see you smile, I'd do anything.
That you wanted me to when all is said and done.
I'd never count the cost.
It's worth all that's lost.
Just to see you smile.”

“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.”

“And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.”