All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

I never, nor will I, put another person down to feel better about myself. I will live and die by what I do, not what anyone else thinks about me.

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

We will have rings and things and fine array