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.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Every man's memory is his private literature.