We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
