Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.