Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

My face is my career.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

I always feel a bit awkward when it's time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don't want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight.