Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.

What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.