Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

The four L's: Love Light Life Liberty!!

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.