Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

When I was little, I always sad that I wanted a brother, and now it's like having four of them!

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.