What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.