You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

I want to look at you as you kill me.

Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.