If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.