Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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