Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

I'm going to draw up a human-rights contract that says everyone on earth must agree we are here as caretakers of the planet, first and foremost.

Thank you for stitching me up" I say."I seem to have a talent for it.

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.