You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known, " but, of course, you couldn't have known.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.