if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.