You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.

Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

I came from a warm Jewish family.

You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.