I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.