How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Kato looks ill. “I… It… Me…” He stares at the massive snake. “Big.”

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.