Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Success is achieved by the deliberate consistent discipline of taking small steps daily rather than one large step occasionally.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.