Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

If we do not fix education in Africa, we are heading for monumental economic disaster.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.