Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

Life is never easy for any body.Be kind, tolerant and compassionate..

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I know everything except myself.

My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.