"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."

 

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

"No one escapes from life alive."

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " 

"It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important."

"Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else." 

"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."