God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

She's my comforter and friend, I tell you she's that peace within. She's the lover in my home, she's the strength when I'm not strong. Everyday my valentine, I'm so glad heave made her mine.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.