People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives.

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.