There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

History is the devil's scripture.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.