Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily

And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

The only good cage is an empty cage.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.