“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

“It’s time to stop thinking about greed!It’s time to stop talking hatred & bigotry!It’s time to stop discrimination!It’s time to stop using religion as an excuse!It’s time to stand up for the homeless!It’s time to stand up for truth!It’s time to stand up for what’s right!It’s time to stand up for each other!It’s time to stand up, and stop the rape & pillage of this land!It’s time to stand up, and take responsibility for our actions, and no one else’s!It’s time to stand up for our families!It’s time to stand up for the old values & morals.It’s to stand up & fight shoulder to shoulder and stop this carnage.It’s time to stand up for you, and everyone else in this world of ours.IT’S TIME!”

“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”

“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.”

“To love unconditionally, is to live as free as a Monarch Butterfly in Spring.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”

“People with no human values are worse than zombies.”

“We are all just a bunch of freaks. Some are just more honest about it.”

“Let him have his dreams and believe in love and romance. Suppose we all do deep down if we thought about being honest.”

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

“There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view; there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.”

“Fearless honesty is sincere faith.”

“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.”