For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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?

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.