Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Balance: a dance with how and when.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

[Barack Obama] was comfortable when he had the foil.

I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.