Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Favorite color: I hate colors.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.