Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.