There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

Everything was bright and white, even in the night.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.

Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.