Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.
A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.
If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?
The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.
Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.
Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.
My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.