• History is a vast early warning system.

• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

• What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

• A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.

• Laughter is inner jogging.