Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Once bitten, twice alert.. Don't shy away.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.