The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

I have drunk, and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)

Fear not death

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

I got no time for the jibba-jabba.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.