I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
I observe and remain silent.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
It was just a matter of survivalーlike getting off the roadーso we could exist form day to day.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Let people hate you so long as they fear you.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.