I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

What can you do in order to save your own banks?

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.