when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

All writing is a process of elimination.

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.