My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

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.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

You can't find what you don't go looking for.

Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Gifts are like hooks.

I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!