So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.