I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

I embrace now—this moment—with my whole being.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

If you chose to be happy, You will be happy.

I once thought it would take a miracle to improve my circumstances. Now, I believe it will take something far more powerful, if such a thing exists.

WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.