It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.