The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.