Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned. . . it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.
I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong. . . I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.