Henry Miller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The most you get is what you ask for.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.