Die, but do not retreat.
The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks…. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
There is talk … of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.
[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.
Id rather regret the things Ive done than regret the things I havent done.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
I do not like to be unkind.
