Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

The value of trust is very much like the value of dignity.

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.