Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.