Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

To think is to say 'no.'

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

DREAMS are the ones that WAKE you, SHAKE you and make YOU..........................................

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.