Build thee more stately mansions.

Build thee more stately mansions.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money power and influence.

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.