"While life could be evaded, death could not."

“Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.”

Source : Mario Pei (1965). “The Story of Language”

“There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.”

“I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.”

“I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.”

“The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.”

Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.210, Courier Corporation

“I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.”

“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.”