History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Laugh as much as possible. Because this makes your life better!

It is pain that ages us, not years.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.