The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Freedom is a daring liberation.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.