I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

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.

In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

There was a time when people thought that if you piled a bunch of mortgages together, the top of the pile was AAA. There are a lot of things that become consensus.

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.