It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

The voice of the Soul can be heard within the silence of the unaffected mind. Listen.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Well, you know, with Donald Trump, it's non-stop and it's 24-7.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.