Culture is religion externalized.

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

It’s quite a discipline when we’re in trouble to think of God and say, “I need some help.”

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.