Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Carl Gustav Jung

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

James Baldwin

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Yoga Vasishtha

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Margaret Oliphant

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Orson Welles

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Thomas Merton