Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Do what you want that works.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

I pride myself on average, not home runs.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

I want to live like a man.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

I continuously strive to touch lives.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.