Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!