I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way

People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission - the value of people and how to truly appreciate them.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!