When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.