There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Jests that give pains are not jests.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.