Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.