When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.