Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation

Look at the lonely fisherman, ' my father says.'Look at his view, ' my mother says.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

I never went for the talkers.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.