No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

Never will you talk to me like that again.

Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.

If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.