Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.