The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread..

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master..

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself..

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are o….

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken..

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze..

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself..

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't..

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved..

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its d….

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning..

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted..

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to..

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense ….

The living moment is everything..

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they nev….

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams..

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies..

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they st….

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters..

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little..