What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.

As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

I feel like having a positive attitude in life is going to change the world. If we could all have a good attitude, we could really make a change.

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth