Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Courage is grace under pressure.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Once you label me you negate me.

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.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.