To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

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.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.