That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Are you waiting for the approval of someone else before you make your big move? If you are, chances are they’ve already made it.

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.