Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Don't bring negative to my door.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

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.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.