"It is a essential truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

"I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people."

"I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come."

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."

"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."