I'm not... I'm not without a heart, ' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.