I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

It doesn’t matter your area of calling, you can invest quality time into it, you will definitely become the best and that will buy you greatness.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

How I was raised is what I am today.

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.