The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.