Ambrose Redmoon

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Time wounds all heels.