Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

Nothing's boring if it's in your soul.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess

Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?""I think it was Alan Blunt.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.