He who retreats lives longer.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they’d find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.