There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

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.

God's grace is seed of salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.