Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.