The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

I feel like a cliche.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.