None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

You become lucky when you prepare yourself for the opportunity.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.