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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

I'm not a conservative of any kind.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.