Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

When the toughest of problems strike me, I just remind myself that God is on my side.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.