It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye...

It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth.

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel’s definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and...

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

Family’s the most important thing.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult – hate him.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I’ve never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn’t. Put it in perspective.

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself, ‘So what?’ Then, after answering, ask yourself again, ‘So what?’ And then a third time—’So what?’ Chances are you’ll come to realize that...

It’s not the beauty that’s important, it’s the idea that is important.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the...

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn’t think could be possible.

There are only two worlds – your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not...

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

It takes time, or does time take it?

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

La pensée n’est qu’un écliar au milieu d’une longue nuit. Mais c’est cet éclair qui est tout.Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things...

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

And I believe in the importance of stories.