The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
