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

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

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

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

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.