“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. …
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be …
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses …
“Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.”
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to …
“Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
“In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn’t quite know what to do about it. …
“Hope is only the love of life.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say …
“With a stop light, green means ‘go’ and yellow means ‘slow down’. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means ‘go’, green …
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.”
“If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults …
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative?to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
“Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.”
“Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.”
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
“If you don’t think your life is worth more than someone else’s, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.”
“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
“Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.”
“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”
“The only difference between a rut and a grave… is in their dimensions.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.”
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
“Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is …
“I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but …
“Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.”
“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
“I don’t think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”