You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

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I like it when I can get really abstract.