Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this... This is always true.

Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.