Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

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 gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties.

One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.

I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.

And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.