The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

I'm doing this for me.

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.