If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!

Heaven can only help those whose frequent thoughts, decisions, and actions are constantly in the directions of their goals and dreams.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.