«Я убедился на собственном опыте, что люди, не имеющие недостатков, имеют очень мало достоинств»

«Ничто не урегулировано окончательно, пока не урегулировано справедливо»

«Если бы у меня было восемь часов на то, чтобы срубить дерево, я потратил бы шесть часов на то, чтобы наточить топор»

«Будет больше пользы, если вы уступите дорогу собаке, чем если она вас укусит. Даже убив собаку, вы останетесь укушенным»

Большинство людей счастливы настолько, насколько они считают себя счастливыми»

« Кто пассивно ждёт — в конце концов получает ожидаемое, но только то, что осталось после тех, кто действовал энергично. »

«Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия»

«Кем бы ты ни был - будь лучше»

«Отец говорил мне, что надо трудиться; он не говорил, что надо любить трудиться»

«Раз мы взялись за новое дело, мы должны иначе думать и действовать»

«Я всегда был невысокого мнения о тех, кто сегодня не старается быть умнее, чем вчера»

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody even ones own relatives.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

I am joy.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?