I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

Nobody is masterless, even ronin enslaved by his sword.

Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.