Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.