Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!