There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Knowledge is never too dear.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?

My pride fell with my fortunes.

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.