At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

History is an accumulation of error.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.