People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

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

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.