My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.

He knew the saying was “the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach, ” he was kind of counting on it working the other way around.

The universe can be incredible! Just try to take this moment in. This is really something!

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

It's smart to be thrifty.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.