You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

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.

Everything is in a state of becoming more then it is

Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God's Attention

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.