We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

If I show up on your doorstep don't worry I'm just there to party.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.