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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.