Laughter is inner jogging.

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.

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?

The control center of your life is your attitude.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.