Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice. . . must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.
Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own.