"Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way."

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

"If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."

"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."

"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man."

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."

"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life."

"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all."

"We鈥檇 forgive most things if we knew the facts."

"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."