The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Life’s challenges are inevitable. We have to prepare mentally by renewing our mind with inspiration daily to be able to cope when the situation arise.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.