We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.