Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.