I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.