The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

I have a short attention span.

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.