Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.

It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.