The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.

Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

My fans have grown up with me and seen my life change over the years, from a young girl with 'Goodies' to a full-grown woman and now mom.

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

You cant very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them too.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.