These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.