The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating.

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Inauguration Security was tighter than Kirstie Alley in a pair of spandex pants.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.