If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.