Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
George Shinn. He's the owner of the Charlotte Harlots basketball team.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.