Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.