The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.