Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

Truth is such a subjective thing.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.