Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.