I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.

He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

'You think we're dancing?' 'That's all we've ever done.'

I don't believe in capital per se or a priori but I do occasionally believe in personal capital vis-a- vis psychic energy exchange. I use the word "capital" only poetically.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.