The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

I truly believe that America's greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn't treat us fairly.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.