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

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

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?"

We will not have peace by afterthought.