I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Nothing is black or white.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.