Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.

Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.