One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

He’s a guy. We’re easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It’ll take five minutes…three if you wear something low-cut.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.