Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.