A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

I can’t tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.

Llamas can drive... they just don't know it yet...

If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Civil disobedience is an act of love.