Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.