If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.