Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Celebrate every new day you are alive to witness, because being among the living is a blessing that often disappoints some of the people who deserve it the most.

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.