Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.