I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

So sweet and precious is family life.

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?