We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.