The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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?"

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.

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

History is a vast early warning system.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.