You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. . . The wait is simply too long.
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.