I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed--

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.