One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.