... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!

Ah take the cash and let the credit go.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.

There is one person I can think of better than me. And that's Zach Braff. What a cool guy.