Moonlight is sculpture.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Common sense is not so common.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Thought is free.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
