The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

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?

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education.

Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.