Hope is not a method.

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

We're not thirteen and this isn't a locker room." "Fine, fine. Just remember, I had to watch Dr. Phil with Mom for two months after I had knee surgery. I'm practically a psychiatrist.

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.