History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.