“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as “our brother’s keepers,” possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.”

“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”

“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”

“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.”

“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”

“People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or vice versa”

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”

“I can’t abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!”

“We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!”