The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Evil then results from imperfection.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.