Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.