Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.