I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

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.

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.

Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.

A man is either free or he is not.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.