The essence of man is imperfection.

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?

What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

My family background was deeply Christian.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Being peaceful is being angel!