Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.