Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.

Thanks, ” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Courage is exhilarating.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.