I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action

I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.