Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.