The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me, ' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

My family is very far from normal.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.