The government invented the Internet.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

be-careful for what you wish for it may be seeking you as well...

People sccumb to injuries and i sccumbed to my thoughts

There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

I mean, it's not like he's Damon Salvatore hot

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.