I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Effective action is always unjust.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.