And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The world is not a rational place.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

No one was normal, not really.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.