We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
