No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.