I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.

Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

You look at him with your whole heart in your eyes.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.