Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
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.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
