Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

The world's questions cannot be simply solved with just one equation.

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.