People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

here we were again , always saying good-bye

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.