Each body has its art.

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.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.