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If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.
People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.
This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.
My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.
The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.