A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby's bum.

The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.