So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option. '