Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do, " Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Faith is faith.

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

start ignoring people who threaten your joy. literally, ignore them. say nothing. don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

Someday, Sarah, someone will come along and give you the moon, and the stars too.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.