Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.

Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.