I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved.

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

I just want to give my love to God.