No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

I bow my knees and pray to God.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.