“Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.”

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.

Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.

Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I’ll commend them for truth in advertising.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.