Ray Bradbury

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.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

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

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

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Logic is like the sword

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.