Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "What can I do to keep my l — Peanuts

"Ive developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. (8 Aug 66)"

"Yes, maam.. I have my report.. How I Wasted Another Sunday Afternoon Watching My Dog Sleep.. (30 May 99)"

"Now I know why we play baseball in the summer... When your shoes and socks get knocked off by a line drive, your feet dont get cold! (03 April 79)"

"(After Peppermint Patty asks him if he likes Marcie and her) Im sorry... Im not here anymore.. Ive suddenly become a recording! (01 Jan 85)"

"Other kids baseball heroes hit home runs. Mine gets sent down to the minors! (7 May 63)"

"Wouldnt it be something if that Little Red-Haired Girl came over here and gave me a kiss? Id say, "Thank you! What was that for?", and wouldnt it be something if she said, "Because Ive always loved you!" Then Id give her a big hug, and shed kiss me again! Wouldnt that be something? (Starts eating) Wouldnt it be something if it turned out that french fries were good for you? (26 Feb 81)"

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."

"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"

"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."

"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"

"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."