Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.

Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.