Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.

Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.