A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

When God created the universe, this world beautifully and gloriously revealed his unfathomable being.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

Your dog is your only philosopher.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.