People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.