Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

We do not preach against people, we preach against sin.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

We call that runnin' through the okra patch.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

We're afraid of letting people see the glory of who we are.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.