Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

That's in the First Amendment?

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.

When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.