Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

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.

Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.