I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Be that self which one truly is.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Genius is sorrow's child.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.