The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.