Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.