No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.