I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly. . . "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.