There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Be that self which one truly is.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
The day of individual happiness has passed
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.