Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.