As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Only you can answer my cries, I’ve been waiting for the angels to knock on my door, I’ve been hopin' that everything could be like before

Fast can be good. Except when moving so fast and getting so far ahead of ourselves we no longer can recognize our mode of transportation or the wall we’ve hit prior to creating it.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.