There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Each soul is potentially divine.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Freedom lies in being bold.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

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.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.