Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Sight is seeing what's there, vision is seeing what's possible

The first day of the rest of my life.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.