One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

If the message of Jesus was love, hope and compassion, and I can bring that to more people by being a more appealing Jesus, I am happy with that.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.