To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.) That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine) Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.