Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
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.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
