We are all born equally far from the sun.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life

Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision.

Youth will be served.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

Even boredom has its crises.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.