Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Patience and love can do anything.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Slow people are just paying close attention.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

I’m pretty much the definition of an American Hero.

I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

I never trash talk, I don't like to trash talk. I like to be friends with all the other boxers.

In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.