To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.