Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

I hate everything which is not in myself.