There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

We live as we dream--alone....

Let your heart be your eye.

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.