“Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?”

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Too few is as many as too many.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer.

It’s okay to not have it all figured out. If someone does have all the answers, that’s when I should be worried.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

Meeting you was like finding the answer to a question I had long since forgotten asking.

I have always prided myself that I do my own thinking. I have my own philosophy. I have my own answer to the reasons things have turned out in my life.