If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers which I do not underestimate.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients but even to strangers.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
In retrospect the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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.
Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Follow the path of the unsafe independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you stand up and be counted at any cost.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.