The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

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?

Oh, " she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

Owning less is better than organizing more.

The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.