Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

What you love will live in your heart and grow.

I always win.

You know you're like, my hero, right?

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

Iniesta is easily Spain's most complete player. He has everything.