No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.