John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. I'm fighting this war against all that because pop music, in my opinion, should be fun.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.