One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Stars don't beg the sky to shine.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

My story begins with a question.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.