The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.