Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.