The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
