“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.”
“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”
“Age measures life in years, but it’s the life in those years that contributes most..”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
