The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

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.

War pacifies itself.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting.

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

It's just difficult to release music constantly while also constantly being on the road.

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.