You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

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.

Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

I love all things Christmas.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.