The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.

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.

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far that was well played game.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.