To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.