The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Your dreams must be bigger than your fear. Embrace all opportunities and be all you are destined to be.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.