Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.