Alfred A. Montapert

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

Join the dance.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.