“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”
Wildness is the preservation of the world.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
"Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation."
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
I just won't sleep," i decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.
Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Everything yields to diligence.
I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.
She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks!
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.