Jerome Blattner

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.