The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.