No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

A pause gives you breathing spaceso listen to the whispersof the real youwaiting to happen.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.