In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

As you grow older, you change.