Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Remember, the difference between the world frozen over, in an ice ball, and the warming period we're in now is just 6 degrees centigrade. A change of just 1 degree can have a huge effect.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.