Never put off writing until you are better at it.

We are in the world to complement each other.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!