A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Be kind to everyone you meet.Give a little bit of yourself to mankind.

When you're one with being you're one with god.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.