I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

Great thoughts, great life.

As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.