I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.

Your attitude is the one thing in this world you have complete control over. You have full command. As empowering as that truth can be, there are some days we let down and give in to a bad attitude.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.