I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Arrive with enthusiasm to every waking moment of your life.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic the spices are so sensuous.

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

Faith is all about trusting God even when you don't understand His plan.

Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.