You have the right to speak your mind.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.