98% of reported hauntings have a natural and mundane explanation … it is the other 2% that have interested me for over 40 years.

Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.