Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

The ocean is six miles deep.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.