Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

We believe each other into being.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes, ] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.

We do not fear death.We fear not having lived enough.

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.