Purity of heart is to will one thing.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Sunlight is painting.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.