Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.