If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

The most important thing is to DARE.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.