Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

The enemy of man is man, my brother.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.