Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

War is what happens when language fails.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.