I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Western technology made slavery unnecessary

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.