... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tightI'm out of range, I use to carebut things have changed.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?