Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.