The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Moonlight is sculpture.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.