A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.

Live in your dreams, not your past.

Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Once we harness ourselves to love, it carries us to eternity.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.