"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."

"It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'."