If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

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.

A strong realization hits me.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

... and what good is a baby?

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.