No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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.

Laughter is inner jogging.

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?

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Music makes the people come together.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

You can't stop change. Don't let it stop you.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.