Big dreams are marathons. Passionate actions are marathons of marathons! Waiters don't deserve it

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.