The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

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?

The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe

Your full of yourself.""Duhh... genetics man.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.