Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

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?

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

Knowledge will help you to gain wisdom wisdom will open your mind to being kind.

Life is abundance grace.

Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!