Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart -- far more damaging to yourself than to them."

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we...Read more

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.