We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

You may have lost someone, but you’ve found something immeasurably more valuable: God, ’ she told me. ‘And God’s love lasts forever.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.