The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture read more

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes read more

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know read more

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or read more

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and read more

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand read more

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.