The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.