Being the first born gives you great patience.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.