A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

You were born for the Kingdom of God

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.