Why change the world? Change worlds!

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.

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.

Writing is a team sport.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me, ' or 'Help me.'

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.