Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality.

Heiresses are never jilted.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.

Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Principle is a passion for truth.