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.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"