In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.

How does something so invisible make one so invincible?

She wondered how to mourn the death of a son who wasn't dead. And yet the loss of separation made that easy. The idea of pain made pain, where she knew none could possibly truly exist.

The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.