Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.

Ask in faith.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.