Better a little hardship now than a great deal of loss or suffering forever, and a third alternative simply does not exist.

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

A little praise goes a great ways.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.