A change is as good as a rest.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Time heals all wounds.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

What you do without expectations defines your success.

Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.