Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

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

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.