It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.