...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Things are not always the way tbey seem to be

I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.