To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.

You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!