The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

But when perfections comes, the imperfect disappears1st Corinthians

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

My kids are funny. They won't eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels...and now they won't eat rolls!

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.