Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The world is not a rational place.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and do so frequently.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?