Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

We live in a world of banal miracles.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

Hope is the seed of happiness.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.