In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?