It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Humility is attentive patience.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
A person preaches well that lives well.
