There was only one catch and that was catch 22

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

You said I'm a god. Bring me down from heaven. I...I want you to see me as a man.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.