If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.