Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.