We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.

Those who are willing to love find love in every flower.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.