I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."