I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.