The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

Hi, my name is Cuelebre, Liam Cuelebre. My code name is Double Oh Peanut, but you can call me Rock Star for short.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice

Even the Dead Hunger for Life.

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.