A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

I'll be safe and happy when I'm no longer afraid of my own mind.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

While in a crowded underground carriage, scream 'It's happening again!