To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Genius is sorrow's child.