He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

Next to music, beer was best.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

A diamond's happy ending is on a crown, but its beauty was formed in dirt.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.