Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life’s else bitter cup distilled

I like suspenseful movies instead of really gory, scary movies because I’m a coward. The suspense genre makes you think.

Suspenseful movies are one of my favorite kinds of stuff. It compels you to think about what happened next.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God

To learn that the world, though governed by eternal laws, has yet managed to surprise us

The hardest hurdles for me was the streets, just getting out the streets. Surviving. Staying out of prison and staying on track. Staying focused.”