Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle Seine besondere Meinung preist! Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt, Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!
I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
