A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.