In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren

I think you have bits of Primord in your hair...And you look …bloody...You look a mess, Halíka...But you are still the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.