The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Work is an instrument for fulfilling purpose

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.