...Belief is strong. Stronger than rationality. Fear, love hope -all rational emotions, but they sway people more fiercely than any fact-based argument.

Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.

Real friends, are really hard to come by.

America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.