A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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?

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.

The value of time cannot be bought with money.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.