Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

Self-acceptance is self-love in action.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.