To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

To remain young one must change.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

A mans home is his wifes castle.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

Blue are the hills that are far away

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

The length of ones days matters less than the love of ones family and friends.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.