There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

In arguing, what people lack in intellect they usually make up for in name-calling.

Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.