A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.