No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

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.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Love is like a pair of polarized sunglasses, making every color seem more vivid, richer, warmer. Without it we stare at the world dull-eyed and flinch at the thought it might remain the same forever.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

I have found life so beautiful.

What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.