Pessimism is a waste of time.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!