How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.