"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."

"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."

"Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls."

"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

"Make yourself do something stupid, so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing."

"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."