If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Fenway is the essence of baseball