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Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.
All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.
Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.
An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network.
Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.
Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.
Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose