Ray Bradbury

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Friends are thieves of time.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Choose people who lift you up.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.