For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.