Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

The scare quotes burn off like fog.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.