Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

Everything you are called to do has already been prepared for you by God, He just needs your obedience

We are spirits deceived by the sky to create light and trade our souls to the sun but fail to become galaxies when it's dark

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.