The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

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.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.