I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.