The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.