He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

It's not your wallet or purse that has a direct line with God.It's your heart!

A woman's beauty should not imitate art.

I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.