I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.