If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

In darkness, some flowers blossom!

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no, " courage to say, "yes, " for courage counts.

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

I like you just the way you are.

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.

Anger destroys your soul.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.