The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

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?

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Babies are born without knee-caps.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.