It's so easy to judge things we don't understand.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

Never take what's offered, always ask for more.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.