Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
