"All men are mortal, and therefore all..." - Quote by John Updike

“What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.”

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'”

“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

“O time! swift devourer of all created things!”

“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.”

“I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.”

“People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.”

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”