If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.

In all things... .strive for perfection - settle for excellence

Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer.

If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.

If you can't show it, you don't know it.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.