I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

You are always freed by your lucid knowledge and acceptance of your tasks.

Smile to enjoy the beauties of life.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all