Pain is always preferable to numbness.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

It is not possible to satisfy women, " a friend said. "We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don't have children at all.

Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

Safer to be feared than loved.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.