My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.

People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.