Oneself Quotes

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn’t any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.

There’s one thing I’m really good at, and that’s hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I’m excellent.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.