As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

You were born with a song in the seat of your soul

I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God.

Solitude is our greatest teacher

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.