Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.