Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.