Waiting is one of the great arts.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

My family and my friends inspire me.

I don't believe in happy endings.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.