Everything not forbidden is compulsory

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

Life is pushing you toward love.

If life has taught me anything it’s to appreciate what you’ve got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

I love doing photo shoots... I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I’d do that... Because that’s fun for me. That’s not work.

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.