People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

We believe world peace is inevitable.

Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!