Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.