I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.