We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.

Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.