That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick. . . it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that. . . Freud was always saying he was a scientist.
Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.
I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.