You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.