What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul is so solid and reliable that you can trust it every night

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Targets don't fight crime.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)