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

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.

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

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.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you