Experience is not the enemy: It is the hubris that is often a by-product of experience that is our greatest enemy.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Every race proves a new opportunity to educate myself about what it means to be a runner and what it means to run.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that fundamentally all Democrats are Democrats.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.