Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

The strongest man survives himself.

He glared at Lucian in the manner of birds, first peering through one eye and then turning his head to peer through the other, apparently finding both views equally loathsome.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.