After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.