At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.