When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Why should your heart not dance?

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.