It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.