Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

What's there to remember if not the good things?

As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn't come in person today to get his two cents in.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.