If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

The worst old age is that of the mind.