There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
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.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Moonlight is sculpture.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
