In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Your character determines how many followers you will have.

Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.