Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

The very best thing about dogs is how they just know when you need them most, and they’ll drop everything that they’re doing to sit with you awhile.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

Great faith must have great trials.

Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.