"If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear."

"Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice."

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap."

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

"Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women."

"When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."

"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."

"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots."

"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."

"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."