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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.