Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him the importance of the presidency and the significance of his life all wrong.

In my own personal life God plays a great role in the risk because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case and I ask him to give me wisdom to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating but for everything.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Personally I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

You should be careful what you wish for as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives but others can have different agendas.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name a face a place and match it to families then war is not impersonal.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

As for charity it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned and the ultimate consequence to the general good are apt to be at complete war with one another.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach one that writing is hard work and two that you have to give up a great deal of life your personal life to be a writer.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

To me horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly as he or she is telling it there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

The truth is I had always wanted to be a comedian but I really didn't have that kind of personality and it's a terrifying thing to say.

I'm actually a very honest person and sometimes I end up like 'Man I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So you know I think as far as our country goes we need more people who will do that.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.