We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.

Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.