A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Stars don't beg the sky to shine.

At first, I was lost in you, but now you're lost on me.

Neurons are built to better remember the incompleted, the unfinished, the uninvited & the unwanted!

I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find