A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.