Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

History is a vast early warning system.