When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Effective action is always unjust.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A person preaches well that lives well.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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

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.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.