Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.