Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.