Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them. - Harriet the Spy
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.