Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Anger is a fire that burns you from both ends.

How could you fail to feel uplifted when a voice was telling you at every step that the year, month, day, season, place, even that very moment were blessed?

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.