If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.