The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children.

I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

I have more zeal than wit.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

I have not slept one wink.