Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.

If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.