Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

I'm not a vegetarian.

I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.