What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.

Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married.

Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past.

...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

I wasn't one to judge others when it came to fashion choices, but even I knew he'd drawn the short straw in the apocalyptic wardrobe department.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.