"Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth."

“We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.”

Source : Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the insignia of the Order of Military Merit, February 05, 1997.

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.”

“The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.”

“He that can work is born to be king of something.”

“There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.”

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”

“The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.”