And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .

[Darlin'] it does not surprise me that someone with as much passion as you would feel the music in your bones.

Be an example

Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

I must achieve internal consistency.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.