I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

Lord, please do this ... or do something better!

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

Your imagination is a very powerful tool given to you by the Universe

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.