There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Be that self which one truly is.

Once you label me you negate me.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.