One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Without stones there is no arch.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest.

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.