"The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail."

"All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done."

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."

"I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it."

"Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."