Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

There's no greater feeling than moving a man from Point A to Point B, against his will.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete’s makeup.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

If you create Youtility, your customers will keep you close.

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.