By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

The more that things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.

Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

Too much of something is never good.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.