It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Dare to risk public criticism.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Humility is attentive patience.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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 am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Moonlight is sculpture.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.