We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.

And-he was ashamed to admit--he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.