We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone's sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.

I am of the opinion", Tharkay said, "that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella