I love you" he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.