Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.