Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.