My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Laziness is the mother of all evils.