When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I’m not familiar with this word you were repeating before…‘cojones’, was it?”I blushed as Dominick patted me on the back. “Way to introduce him to the vernacular, Palta.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.