One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

If you try to buy love, you will go bankrupt trying to possess it.

No. It's choice. Every time, no matter what happens, I would choose you. Even if we had to repeat this for eternity, I would choose you, every time.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Best fishing in troubled waters.