Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

Some things never change

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

We always like those who admire us.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way