There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Freedom is from within.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Give up trying to make me give up
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
