I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

It was fortunate that love did not need words

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.