Flirtation: attention without intention.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?