This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

Every time you practice a weakness, you feed it. And the things you feed grow in your life

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.