Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

Nothing comes without a price.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.