The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

Learn to work on your work.

I'm not famous I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.