The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

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?

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.