You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.
Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.
The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.
